Web Resources

Site 1: CapTel Phone

Website: http://www.scedp.sc.gov/products/Pages/CapTelPhone.aspx
Content/Topic: Captioned Telephone
Site Description: Equipment for Home/Work
Web Validator: WAVE recorded 5 Errors and 6 Alerts on this page. Several Headings were not
formatted.
Content: The CapTel Phone, or Captioned Telephone, captions the words of the people you call.
You can hear and speak while viewing captions. The CapTel Phone works like any other
telephone with one important addition: It displays every word the caller says throughout the
conversation. CapTel users can listen to the caller, and can also read the written captions in the
CapTel's bright display window.
Site 2: Types of Hearing Aids
Website: http://www.listeningandspokenlanguage.org/Document.aspx?id=568
Content/Topic: Hearing Aid Equipment
Site Description: Education
Web Validator: WAVE detected 2 Errors and 8 Alerts on this page. Error alerts were Alt Text
were not present for form image button.
Content: There are several types of hearing aids behind the ear, in the ear, in the canal and
implantable hearing aids. The Article talks about ear molds as well.
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Site 3: Cochlear Implants

Website: http://www.listeningandspokenlanguage.org/Document.aspx?id=532
Content/Topic: Cochlear Implants
Site Description: Education
Web Validator: WAVE noted 2 Errors and 13 Alerts on this page. Error alert referenced an Alt
Text not present for form image and a form image does not have a corresponding label.
Content: Cochlear Implants: types of implants, how they work, and what cochlear implants
sound like.
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Site 4: Phonak Dynamic FM transmitters and receivers

Website: http://www.deafequipment.co.uk/catalogue/2000916/Phonak-Dynamic-FMtransmitters---receivers
Content/Topic: FM Transmitter and Receiver
Site Description: Interactive tools for hearing
Web Validator: WAVE noted 2 Errors and 37 Alerts. The language of the document is not
identifiable.

Content: Designed to be used by children with hearing loss, the inspiro maintains a sleek
appearance and unmatched durability. An easy-to-use interface, color display and ingenious
MultiTalker Network function makes it indispensable for use at home and school.
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Site 5: Alerting Devices

Website: http://www.deafequipment.co.uk/catalogue/122/Alerting-devices
Content/Topic: Various Alerting Devices
Site Description: Equipment for Home/Work
Web Validator: WAVE identified 2 Errors and 60 Alerts. The language of the document is not
identifiable and a form control does not have a corresponding label.
Content: The range of Alerting Devices from Connevans offers solution - from a vibrating watch
to give a tactile alert that a cake needs to be taken out of the oven, to being woken up if there is a
fire...in fact 'solutions to improve the quality of life'. Alarm clocks, baby monitoring, carbon
monoxide alarms, doorbells and chimes, etc.
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Site 6: Kendall Demonstration Elementary School and Model Secondary School

Website: http://www.gallaudet.edu/clerc_center/our_schools.html
Content/Topic: Information about Schools for the Deaf
Site Description: School Information/Education
Web Validator: WAVE found 5 Errors, 3 Alerts and 1 Contrast Error. Two forms do not have
corresponding labels. Images do not have Alt Texts.
Content: Kendall Demonstration Elementary School and Model Secondary School for the Deaf
enroll deaf and hard of hearing students from infancy through high school and explore effective
approaches to teaching and learning that the Clerc Center (National Deaf Education Center)
shares with families and professionals throughout the country.
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Site 7: 7 Things Parents Need to Do Before School Starts (when your child has hearing loss)
Website: http://kidswithhearingloss.org/2014/08/15/7-things-parents-need-to-do-before-schoolstarts-when-your-child-has-hearing-loss/
Content/Topic: Information about School
Site Description: Education
Web Validator: WAVE identified 3 Errors and 1 Alert. An image without Alt Text, a form does
not have corresponding labels and a Heading containing no content.
Content: Down to earth, practical, everyday advice for raising a child with hearing loss.
Schedule an appointment with an audiologist, set up time to review an IEP or 504 plan, to
meeting with classroom teachers and other service providers, this information helps to make
school that much easier for a student who is hearing impaired.
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Site 8: Hearing/Deaf Relationship

Website: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8mmbuHuPUs

Content/Topic: YouTube Video (14 Minutes): Describing A Relationship

Site Description: Education
Web Validator: WAVE found 51 Errors, 35 Alerts, and 9 contrast Errors.
Content: A YouTube video, 14 minutes in length, describing having a deaf/hearing friendship
relationship. Topics range from accepting the persons culture, figure out interpreting issues,
respect and accept noises, to differences in common knowledge and understand and voicing
needs.
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Site 9: Transcense App

Website: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/transcense-group-conversations-made-accessible
Content/Topic: Allows deaf individuals to participate in group discussion
Site Description: Linking Cell phones and Ipads
Web Validator: WAVE found 23 Errors and 12 Alerts.
Content: Transcense is an app that connects various cell phones and Ipads together. It
differentiate the talker and color code their message as it converts talk to text in real time and
displays the information on everyones electronic device. This app cost a lot as it is still being
developed.
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Site 10: MotionSavvy

Website: http://www.motionsavvy.com/
Content/Topic: Sign Language Software
Site Description: Equipment for Home/Work
Web Validator: WAVE detected 3 Errors and 11 Alerts.
Content: With the use of this software loaded onto an Ipad, the person who communicates
through Sign Language can now sign to the Ipad. The Ipad will translate the person signing into
spoken language. The SignBuilder is another software device by MotionSavvy that is a
training aid for students learning Sign Language. These instruments eliminate barriers between
the deaf and hearing. This technology will be release during Fall 2015.
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Site 11: Deaf Communication

Website: http://www.assistech.com/deaf-communication.htm
Content/Topic: Methods and technology in communicating with the deaf
Site Description: Education and Equipment
Web Validator: WAVE found 3 Errors and 8 Alerts. Two form controls do not have
corresponding labels.
Content: This site explains some of the methods and technologies geared towards deaf
communication: TDD - (Telecommunications Device for the Deaf), Voice Carry Over
telephones, Captioned telephones, American Sign Language, Voice-to-text, to name a few.
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Site 12: TTY and TTD for the Deaf

Website: http://www.adapacific.org/resources/relay/tty.php
Content/Topic: Teletypewriter and Telecommunications Devices for the Deaf
Site Description: Education
Web Validator: WAVE identified 2 Errors, 4 Alerts, and 35 Contrast Colors.
Content: A teleprinter or teletypewriter is an obsolete electro-mechanical typewriter. The most
modern form of these devices is fully electronic and uses a screen instead of a printer. These
teletypewriters are still in use by the deaf for typed communications over the telephone, usually
called a TDD (Telecommunications Devices for the Deaf).
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Site 13: Hard of Hearing Advocates (HOHA)

Website: http://www.hohadvocates.org/
Content/Topic: Advocacy Information for the Hard of Hearing
Site Description: Education
Web Validator: WAVE reported 25 Errors and 1 Alert.
Content: The Hard of Hearing Advocates (HOHA) helps hard of hearing (HOH) people by
creating and implementing programs and solutions where HOH people have undue problems. We
seek the advice of industry and others. HOHA is noted by the following saying: Good hearing
permits good communication -- working, better income, fellowship, sharing, joking, and being
able to easily explain issues or negotiate problems -- to participate. Poor hearing denies people
this quality of life. Better hearing would allow them easier communication to be more functional
and productive, resulting in a benefit not only to them but to society as well.
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